Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


| AT the meeting of the First Assembly
| district, United Labor party, in New York
on the night of the 5th, Rev. DR.. Edward
| McGlynn was elected a delegate to the
National convention at Syracuse on
| August 16
GENERAL LAMoUR, charged with at
| of Hayti, has been sentenced to imprison-
| ment for life at hard labor.
| COMMISSIONER SPARKS has ruled that
enforced absence of entrymen from land
on account of drought does not imperil
| the claim if proof of the cause of absence
is made.
THE Pope has decided to unite the do
cess of Wichita and Concordia with that
of Leavenworth, Kas., and the dioceses of
Lincoln and Cheyenne with that of
Omaha.
GEO. THOMPSON. broker, aged twenty
| two years; Max Eigmann, aged thirty-six
and Alfred w. Renchen, aged twenty
four, committed suicide in New York on
| the 9th.
JAMES CHRIsTIANsoN, a Dane, fatally
shot DIR. Eugene B. North at Peru, Ind,
on the 9th. The murderer was at once ar
rested and locked up. About midnight he
was taken from the Jail by forty masked
men and hanged to cross-piece of q
L.
. PREsIDEN, CLEVELAND has written a
letter to Mayor Francis of st. Louis, in
which he says he has decided not to at
tend the G. A. R. encampment, and set
| ting forth at length his reasons therefor.
A MAD dog running at large in Hunting
ton, Long Island, on the 9th, bit TWEEN y-
five other dogs. Fifteen Of the dogs were
| shot, and the others will also be killed.
AN explosion of gun cotton occurred on
the 9th in the powder mill at st. Medard
en- Jalle, eight miles northwest of Bor-
deaux, France. Three persons were
| blown to atoms and many others were in
iured.
ATTENDANTS McHugh and Cleary, who
were lately placed in custody by the ver-
dict of coroner's jury who accused them
of beating an inmate of w ard Isl and On.
Y)Insane asylum named George Farris, so
brutallv that the man died, have been in
indicted for manslaughter by the grand
jury.
NJ. RIsTICs, the Servian Premier, de-
mands that King Milan recall and rein
state the Metropolitan who was exiled to
Russia for his alleged connection with
the late revolutionary cons piracy. King
Milan refuses the ministry will resign.
FIRE completely destro yed the stock of
dry goods of Cowhick & Whitcomb, at
Cheyenne, Wy. T., on the 9th. valued at
s125, 900 and damaged the building $4,000.
The stock was insured for 500, 600 and the
building for s., 500.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that an American vessel which arrived at
New York with cargo of fish caught off
the coast of Newfoundland is exempt from
the continued supervision Of customs Of
ficers on the ground that she did not lear
from foreign port and because her cargo
was free from duty.
TIE fourth annual convention of the
United States Vapor Stove Manufacture
ers' Association began at Cleveland, O.,
on the 9th. The association represents
about twenty-five of the leading firms
manufacturing gasoline stoves in differ
ent cities of the country.
MARK SHANNON, of gainesville, O.,
sculptor, wellknown In the principal
cities of the country, met with horri BILE
death at Erie, Pa, on the 9th He was at
work on the Government building being
erected under the direction of Supervis-
ing-Architect Bell. A misstep precipitat-
ed him from the roof to the ground. His
body was crushed, and death resulted i'm
meditely.
IT it reported from Idaho that number
of Chinese mining camps along Snake
river have been raided by either Indians
or whites. Numerous mutilated bodies
of Cinnamon have been found, four or
five being discovered together few days
since. 1t is thought to be the work of
men who robbed the Chinese of their gold
dust
vines in the vicinity of Berlin, Wis. 1t is
feared the vines will be permanently in
jured. One grower who expected to
harvest $4,000 bushels will not get any.
DELEGATES from various portions of
California closed a three days secret ses-
sion at San Francisco on the 9th, after
formulating a plan for the organization
of the American party. A mass meeting
was held in the evening, preceded by a
street parade aud display of fireworks,
at which the platform of the new party
was read and adopted.
A. ID. PARANT, the defaulting cashier of
the Hoch elaga bank of Mon treal, arrested
at Buffalo, N. Y, recently, was handed
over to Chicago detectives on the 9th,
who had requisition papers for the
prisoner. Parant will be prose cuted i'll
Chicago under an Illinois State law for
having stolen funds and securities of the
bank in his possession there.
EDWARD DOUGLASS, of Meg regor, Ia,
has been disbarred from practising as an
attorney before the Interior Department.
THE Government receipts from July to
9TH, amounted to s., ATT ,6S4, and the expen-
ditures to SIS, sol, 467, or 80, 0S9, 500 in ex-
cess Of the receipts.
THE Missouri Supreme Court overruled
the motion for rehearing in the Max
well case, and extended the day Of execu-
ton to August %.
PRINCE FERDINAND of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha was chosen Prince of Bulgaria by
the Sobranje on the 9TH.
THE coroner held an inquest at Peru,
Ind, or the 9TH, on Christianson, who was
lynched. and found that he came to his
death by strangulation, caused by parties
unknown.
THE proposed new German lean has
been subscribed for seven times over by
Berlin capitalists.
THE State Department has received no
information in regard to the reported
massacre of Cinnamon in Idaho Territory.
The Chinese Legation is equally ignorant.
THE United States Consul at Palermo
has telegraphed the Department of State
that two deaths occurred there on the 9TH,
believed to have been caused by cholera.
CANADIAN cholera is more prevalent in
Montreal this season than for many years
past. Children are dying from cholera
infantum at an alarming rate
SIX of the nine one-story brick build
ings, covering an entire square, occupied
by the Cellonite Manufacturing Company,
at Arlington, n. j.. were demolished by
an explosion on the 9TH. Two persons
were killed and several others wounded.
Mr.. GLADSTONE made strong speech
against the Crimes bill in the House
of Commons On the 7th.
A REPORT comes from Paris that the
Pope recently committed himself in favor
of restoration to France of Alsace-
Lorraine.
WORD has been received from Cali